A pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial: PROF-EPOC Study. Efficacy of an educational intervention about inhalation techniques in health-care professionals.

Ministry of Health and Social Welfare of the Government of Andalusia [Consejeria de Salud, Junta de Andalucia] (Spain)0 sites286 target enrollmentAugust 18, 2014

ConditionsCOPD Respiratory Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Overview

Phase: 未知
Intervention: Not specified
Conditions: COPD
Sponsor: Ministry of Health and Social Welfare of the Government of Andalusia [Consejeria de Salud, Junta de Andalucia] (Spain)
Enrollment: 286
Status: Completed
Last Updated: 2 years ago

Overview Investigators Eligibility Criteria Outcomes Similar Trials

Overview

Brief Summary

2016 Protocol article in http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26988095 protocol 2023 Results article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37915412/ (added 02/11/2023)

Registry

who.int

Start Date

August 18, 2014

End Date

December 31, 2016

Last Updated

2 years ago

Study Type

Interventional

Sex

All

Investigators

Sponsor

Ministry of Health and Social Welfare of the Government of Andalusia [Consejeria de Salud, Junta de Andalucia] (Spain)

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

•1\. For health\-care professionals: having an allocated BHU during the period of the trial, with at least 30 patients included in the COPD Andalusian Health Service Guidelines (COPD PAI) with inhaled therapy and sign the informed consent
•2\. For patients: COPD diagnosis, being treated in Primary Care Centres included in the trial, having inhaled therapy prescribed and accepting to participate in the trial with a signed informed consent

Exclusion Criteria

•1\. For health\-care professionals: the negativity of health\-care professionals? chiefs to participate in the trial or that they have to leave the BHU during the trial.
•2\. For patients: having another respiratory process not included in the COPD definition and cognitive impairments which prevent them from responding in an adequate way the trials questionnaires and the educational intervention assimilation.